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‘No Quick Fix In The Ukraine’–War Must Go On Says Johnson!

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PM JOHNSON said yesterday in Blackpool: ‘Today we are living in the aftermath of the worst pandemic for a century, and once again we...

Secret trials go ahead!

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THE ‘secret courts’ Justice and Security Bill places UK Security Services and Government Ministers ‘above the law,’ civil rights charities Reprieve and Liberty warned...
Students from ULU and their supporters marching to show their determination to defend their union

ULU students march

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AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...

Government refuses to hand over pandemic messages & notebooks – NOW FACES LEGAL ACTION

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THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...
The ERT is still not for sale

Ert Fight At Critical Stage

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THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...

Black Schoolgirl Was Strip-Searched By Met Police

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A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...
40,000 Unison members took part in the recent March 26 TUC demonstration  – Unison is calling for the Health Bill to be scrapped

Gp Head Slams ‘Listening’ Stunt

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THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...

Cameron won’t fire Hunt

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RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
Half a million public sector workers demonstrated in London against the Tory-LibDem coalition on 26th March 2011

No Fault Dismissals ‘a Bad Bosses Charter!’

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‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...

Dairy Farmers Direct Action!

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‘DIRECT action by dairy farmers is imminent,’ Farmers for Action leader David Hanley warned yesterday. He told News Line: ‘This is due to the fact...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

UNIONS FIGHT LAW OF THE JUNGLE BOSSES! – after scabs board ‘Isle of Inishmore’...

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Yesterday General President of the SIPTU trade union, Jack O’Connor wrote to every member of the union concerning the struggle to stop...
Labour  MP JOHN McDONNELL addressing locked out Gate Gourmet workers calls for both the TUC and the TGWU to take action to win the dispute

AIRPORT MUST COME OUT! – to win the struggle say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘TELL the BA workers and every worker on the airport, we need their help again,’ Gate Gourmet striker Mrs P Samara told News Line...

6.35 million need full-time jobs

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose by 28,000 in the last three months, to 2.67 million. Youth joblessness soared by another 16,000, with the...
Tens of thousands marched in April against the planned closure of four west London A&Es. Ex-Labour Health Secretary Hewitt supports closing NHS hospitals and sending patients to India

NHS CRISIS – SEND THE PATIENTS TO INDIA says Hewitt

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...

Portsmouth Uni to axe staff!

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THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...

‘THEY WERE SENDING ME TO THE USA FOR EXECUTION!’ – Lofti Raissi demands apology...

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‘They were sending me to the US for an execution, I will never forgive that,’ said Algerian pilot Lofti Raissi yesterday, after winning the...
Junior Doctors to continue defending NHS

Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full

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JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...
Over 1,000 people marched through Norwich last month against the Arts Council cuts

MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations

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A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
Health workers, trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS on its 63rd birthday in July this year demanded ‘Scrap the Health Bill!’

NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door

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THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...
Labour Party supporters of Jeremy Corbyn protesting at the right-wing witch-hunt against him

Labour NEC gives in to witch-hunt

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THE LABOUR Party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), yesterday adopted all of the examples of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the international definition, in addition...

NEW HOSPITALS THREAT by NHS Clinical Commissioner

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CALLS by the head of NHS Clinical Commissioners for most hospitals to be ‘downsized’ or closed and for 50 per cent of current hospital...

Homeless squatters are ‘criminals’

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SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...
‘One hundred per cent solid’ said pickets at the Princess Royal Distribution Centre in Willesden yesterday morning

GLASGOW WALKS OUT! – unofficial CWU strike action spreads to Edinburgh and Liverpool

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Around 5,400 postal workers walked out in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool yesterday in the face of management provocations. Glasgow Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) officials yesterday...
Young Socialists marchers join with students against the planned £9,000 fees hike, demanding an end to all fees

Great Response To Ys March In Birmingham

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The Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education leaves the Bullring in central Birmingham at 9am this morning. It is setting...
Junior doctors and nurses are battling to defend the NHS from the attacks of the Tories led by health secretary Hunt

Austerity has produced the healthcare crisis says BMA

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THE GP funding crisis is seeing patients in the most deprived areas of England facing poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on...

Unite Warns On Wage & Job Cuts

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THE Unite union is warning that workers must not be expected to meet the costs of the disruption brought by the erupting Icelandic...

Truss To Lift Cap On Bankers’ Bonuses!

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PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...

30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General Gromov

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THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...

Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...

High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!

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LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...

Arrest of 2,000 Palestine Action supporters challenged in Court!

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THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...
A section of the mass demonstration outside Parliament of road hauliers from throughout the UK demanding Brown act on high fuel prices

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

Restore Free State Education – Bring Down The Coalition!

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As MPs prepare to vote on the hike on university tuition fees of up to £9,000, the Young Socialists Student Society called on...

‘We need more GPs’ says BMA chairman Nagpaul

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DISINVESTMENT in general practice by successive governments has drastically hampered doctors’ ability to provide safe care, BMA GPs committee chair Chaand Nagpaul has warned...

NHS ‘safe staffing’ suspended

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THE ‘SAFE staffing levels’ for hospitals across the UK have been suspended, sending alarm bells ringing throughout the NHS. This has prompted the Royal College...
Greek port workers taking national strike action against SYRIZA’s privatisation plans

Greek Port Workers Strike

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GREEK port workers staged a 100% solid national strike on Thursday against the privatisation plans of the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) and...

‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s first socialist mayor

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ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...

Tories plan NHS destruction

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OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...

‘Compromise deal collapsing’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...

2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St

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MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...

2019 Is The Year For Socialist Revolutions

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NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...
The picket line at Dewsbury District Hospital yesterday morning. The workers are determined to defeat management attacks

Yorks Hospital Workers Strike To Defend Jobs

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five-hundred clerical and administration workers at three hospitals in West Yorkshire came out on strike on Sunday. They are striking for five-days against threats of...

Sri Lankan Workers Determined To Continue The Revolution

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SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...